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[–] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

AAAA wtf im trying to post the URL parameter for easy copying, but it always gets converted to this

https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s

Where the fuck is that 25 coming from?

If i write /?q=%s seperately like this its not problem. This even happens on mobile, so its just not allowed to post this kind of link for some reason.

noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%s

Oh without the https:// it doesnt happen

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago

    It's getting encoded. % is a special character in URIs. Let me try posting it inside of back ticks, as well as triple back ticks:

    https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s

    https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s
    

    I've noticed that there's a plague of threadiverse clients which improperly escape/encode URIs. It's most evident with how they mangle parenthesis in Wikipedia article titles.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    It’s encoding your URL into the correct format for your Browers URL bar. “%25” is the encoded version of “%”, so it’s being replaced.

    It’s obviously incorrect in this instance since it’s not an actual URL. Maybe it wouldn’t happen if you’re able to put the URL string into a code block?

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